Opinion

E arly voting is underway in the 2026 preferential primary, non-partisan judicial and school election in Carroll County. If you’re a registered voter, I urge you to exercise your right to vote. It makes no difference to me whether you’re a conservative or a liberal, a Republican or a Democrat. If you’re a citizen of our great nation and you’ve reached voting age, I believe it’s not just your right but your inherent duty to participate in the democratic process. There are a lot of ways to do that, but the simplest and easiest is to go to the polls and vote.

The March 3 primaries feature two state Senate primaries where Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders supports a challenger opposing a sitting Republican senator.

Arkansas is blessed to have a lot of talented journalists doing their best to keep our state’s citizens informed about what’s going on around them.

This year’s open primary elections in Arkansas will be a little more closed, but only to Democrats seeking to vote in the Republican primary.

Local communities need local news, but can local newspapers still be profitable? Roby Brock believes so, which is one reason why he has bought four of them in the past seven months.

It’s the first week in February, which means it’s time once again for my attempt to guess what’s going to happen in the Super Bowl. Sometimes, I’m pretty close. Three years ago, I picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-28 “in a game that won’t be decided until the closing minutes.”

Let’s meet the Republicans seeking to be Arkansas’ next secretary of state: Sen. Kim Hammer, R-Benton; Miller County Judge Cathy Hardin Harrison; and Bryan Norris.

I’ve invented a new game that I’m hoping will catch on. It’s called “Mailer Madness.” The way it works is sort of like a hand of poker. Everyone puts in a dollar to start, and then adds a dollar each round until someone correctly guesses the gist of the next dark-money mailer that will clutter up our mailboxes and ultimately our landfills.

It’s a couple of weeks late, admittedly, for a column outlining my New Year’s resolutions, but I’ve been busy and this list says nothing about getting things done in a timely manner.